I genuinely don’t know and would prefer getting perspectives from Lemmy rather than just reading generic facts. (Sorry if this seems lazy!)
I ask because China is communist, and sometimes I am afraid of some policies in China, like lack of free speech or free press. But I also think poverty and homelessness are a great evil and don’t know to what extent China has stopped this.
They do. Most people, even some in rural areas, have access to the internet. But due to both censorship issues, and most importantly, the language barrier, its really rare for someone to seek out the western internet. Even first generation Chinese immigrants to the US still mostly use Wechat, even when they have unrestricted access to western-based media (because of the language barrier).
Also because WeChat is definitively the best app on the internet for communicating with their Chinese friends and family both at home and abroad.
Agreed, I dumbed it down a bit to summarize the point. The main point being that there isn’t any free pipeline of communication between these groups.